Hierarchical encoding and decoding devices
Patent Information
- Authority / Receiving Office
- US ยท United States
- Patent Type
- Applications(United States)
- Current Assignee / Owner
- FUJITSU LTD
- Publication Date
- 2005-02-10
- Estimated Expiration
- Not applicable ยท inactive patent
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Abstract
Description
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION
[0001] This application is a continuation of international PCT application No. PCT / JP02 / 02576 filed on Mar. 19, 2002.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION
[0002] 1. Field of the Invention
[0003] The present invention relates to the compression encoding and decoding of data, more particularly relates to a device for generating hierarchically encoded data and decoding the hierarchically encoded data in streaming distribution of data in accordance with an ever-changing bandwidth as in an IP (Internet protocol) network.
[0004] 2. Description of the Related Art
[0005] FIGS. 1 and 2 show the respective configurations of a hierarchically encoding device conventionally used in the streaming distribution of moving pictures and its decoding device, respectively. The encoding and decoding devices are installed in the distribution device of moving pictures and its receiving device.
[0006] Firstly, on the encoder side, a base layer encoding unit 102 encodes an origina...